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Selected as a “Great American Main Street” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Georgetown’s charming courthouse square is a favorite location of Hollywood film scouts. There’s a coop-domed courhose here where District Attorney Don Moody took took on the Klu Klux Klan, he went on to become Attorney General and governor.
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Farmers and Mechanics Bank
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Williamson County Historical Museum
Beaux Arts Farmer Bank Building
on the square
houses county history and archives
Art Deco scones and designs interior wall
Restored and is the site for giving plays and music events.
Near Georgetown
A cave full of stalagmites as well as remains of prehistoric wolves and mastadons.
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And back to our trip down the ridge to cowboy country:
Was named after Colonel Henry Haines. He was a manager for Henry B. Plant, a Oil man who took up with the railroad and helped develop Florida. Legend says that the town was named for the Colonel to induce th company to stop its trains here and it worked.
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Downtown Haines City Commercial District
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The Heart of Florida
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Location in Polk County and the state of Florida
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| Coordinates: 28°6′42″N 81°37′43″WCoordinates: 28°6′42″N 81°37′43″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Florida |
| County | Polk |
| Incorporated | February 23, 1914 |
| Established | 1885 |
| Named for | Colonel Henry Haines |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council–manager |
| • City Commissioners | Morris West (Mayor) Anne Huffman (Vice-Mayor) Jayne Hall Horace West Claude Holmes II |
| • City Manager | Deric C. Feacher |
| • City Clerk | Linda Bourgeois |
| • City Attorney | Fred Reilly |
| Area | |
| • Total | 20.20 sq mi (52.31 km2) |
| • Land | 18.85 sq mi (48.82 km2) |
| • Water | 1.35 sq mi (3.49 km2) 7.27% |
| Elevation | 200 ft (61 m) |
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| • Total | 20,535 |
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| • Density | 1,331.02/sq mi (513.91/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
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33844-33845
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| Area code(s) | 863 |
| FIPS code | 12-28400[3] |
| GNIS feature ID | 0283589[4] |
| Website | hainescity.com |
Located in th northern portion of the Lake Wales RIdge. Haines City is the commerical center of growing northeast Polk Co. Long dependent on citrus production as its principal industry, it is becoming popular as a retirement center.
Places of Interst in Haines City
I’ll just name a couple
9th Street and Ave E
Oakland High School was the original name. There were 5 building that made up the school for African American children from Haines City, Davenport, Lake Hamilton, Dundee and the unincorported areas of northeast Polk Couny. It later became a center for recreational and educatinal functions.
In 2004 the historical Bethune Community Center and Senior Center was devastated by Hurricane Charlie leaving the small community without a place to go for fellowship and recreation. Check out what has been done to remedy this
800–810 Hinson Avenue
the hotel was built in 1925, it has more recently been the Palm Crest Hotel and has remained in business ever since its opening
Continue South and next Tues we’ll visit
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“Ostara, also known as Eostre, was a pagan goddess of fertility. Easter the Christian festival, which lies near the spring equinox, derives its name and its symbols from her. The Easter egg, for example was originally Ostara’s emblem, a sign of her wholeness and unfailing fertility. Such was the power of her fertility that estrogen, the hormone that prompts egg production in women, is named after her. Ostera’s arrival was marked by the blossoming of yellow flowers such as primross and daffodils and by the fresh green leaves.”
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James Pritchard a confederate captain from New York who joined up while living in Missouri and married to a lady from Key West. and members of the family lived in this Titusville house from 1891 to May, 2005 when it was purchased Brevard County. The house is now open for public tours, exhibitions and progrems as well as rental for private parties and meetings.
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This picture was taken on my first trip to London—I stayed in the city for 3 weeks–two by myself (except for the 4 day tour that I took to Wales–It was one of those smaller tours—only 3 of us went me and two other women )—This is just a random picture as I walked about the city–something I did alot—I was amazed at the quanity of the flowers that were present in the great metropolis.
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In 1887 a spring was found in Lake Adelaide, and the citizens changed its name of the city the city to its present inclusion of that discovery. The town at that time had one big draw–the Altamonte Hotel which was eventually destroyed by fire in 1953.
The town today is made up of retail stores and office centers as well as a residential communities.
Most of the city’s businesses are along 436 —including the Altamonte Mall https://www.altamontemall.com/en.html Also there’s an Advent Health as well as numerous professional building and many restaurants. The city library and cultural center is on Maitland Ave.
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“There came towards us upon the wind the voice of the deep distant bell of St. Paul’s as it struck the hour of midnight….into the quiet train of thought which such a place awakens, paced the echoing stones like some old monk whose present world lay all within its walls.”
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Grave of a sailor who died on the USS Maine at Key West Cemetery.
Dating from 1847 the cemetery is located in the center of Old Town. The streets about it are Angela, Margaret, Passover Lane, Francis and Olivia. Orginally on another part of the island it was moved to what would pass for higher ground only in Key West—but it is the highest point on island. The reports of the previous cemetery which was at the Southern Most Point sayes that the 1847 hurricane destroyed the whole of the place—ripping out tomb stones and scattering bodies about the island some even lodged in trees.
The current area is full of the bizzare and the subline from a memorial and final resting place for sailors killed with the destruction of the Maine, to a plot where it is said the family spent an entire fortune burying family members and assorted pets–including a deer.
Here you’ll see the Victorian graves with their symbolic decor–The Calla Lily (for majestic beauty), Lily of the Valley (Bride), A lamb or cherub (for a child’s stone) or an urn (an adult) as well as wreaths (for eternity) Roses for love, Ivy for immortility and clasped hands for farewell and Friendship—-to name a few.
Visiting here will take you to the main entry gates at the corner of Margaret and Angegla Streets. And be ready for all manner of things to see—Come back and we’ll meet at the gate on Tuesday and I’ll tell you more. (figuratively speaking of course)
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Sea gods Shinto (Japan). A group of three Kamis, generally identified as the Sumiyoshi-No-Kami, who protect seafarers, including fishermen. They are the subject of special worship by the Jingu-Kogo sect , whom they escorted to Korea in distant times. They are also tutelary deities of poets and may ahve a purifying function. Their main sancturires are the Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka and Munakata-Taisha. See also Uni-No-Kami
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and we’ll end with a ruined castle somewhere in Ireland…
